#inner success

[venusempathempresspriestess]

What is Success?Success is An Energy of Opportunity Achievement Outcome as well as Illusion~ What is the definition of success in the dictionary? What is the meaning of success in the business world? What is the meaning of success to an eight year old? What is the meaning of Success to You? What are you looking for? Physical Success or Spiritual Success? What Matters Most To You? Material Prosperity or Spiritual Prosperity? Do You Want to Be Successful on the inside or Do You Want to be Successful on the outside? Being Successful on the outside involves money fame status titles recognition and power While Being Successful on the inside involves living defining maintaining embracing and loving My own versions of Successes ~ What are My Own Versions of Success? ~I stay True to Myself ~I stay True to My Unique Self ~ ~I stay True to My Unique Weird Personality ~I stay True to My Own Unique Values even when others disagree My Inner Success Affirmations~ I AM A Firm Believer In Inner Success Energy ~ I Fulfill My Inner Life Purpose Finding My Inner Success Is To Find My Inner Strength My Inner Self My Inner Growth My Inner Happiness My Inner Joy And My Inner Peace ~

[opalstream]

Affirmation

I am the captain of my ship of good judgment, will, and activity.

I will guide my ship of life,

Ever beholding the polestar of His peace

Shining in the firmament of my deep meditation.

Your Success Is What You Have Attained Within

When you see the masses who have no real happiness or success, don’t think that life is meant to be this way. You can make of yourself whatever you want to be. It is what you have attained within that determines your success. If you have nothing within, you have no happiness. And if you have nothing outside, but are happy within, you have all success. So you cannot judge people by their outer circumstances. Right amongst you in the crowd there may be one of exalted spiritual stature who has attained real soul peace and happiness within.

This is why moral success - freedom from the dictates of wrong habits and impulses - gives more happiness than material success. In moral success there is a psychological happiness that cannot be taken away by any physical condition. You can spend all your time making money, but it won’t produce the lasting comfort and security you are looking for….Peace and happiness are in the mind not in things. If you do not also devote time to the discipline of your mind, no amount of material prosperity will satisfy you. This discipline is not a process of torture, but the training of the consciousness to adopt those thoughts and actions that lead to happiness.

-Paramahansa Yogananda

Journey to Self Realization p 273

*Wishing you a day of inner success, peace, and joy. OmLove, Annie

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[loveandknowledge]

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden, the most successful basketball coach in American history

[contentclicks]

Inner Success

Guiding Souls Toward Abundance, Inner Success, and Purpose-Driven Impact

[loveandknowledge]

Inner success

Let me give you a completely different definition of success, one that's at least two thousand years old. Success, according to this definition, neither hinges on how society distributess prestige nor suits vulgar rankings. Here it is: true success is inner success. Voilà.

This has nothing to do with incense sticks, self-contemplation or yoga. Striving for inner success is one of the most sensible approaches there is-and one of the roots of Western thought... Greek and Roman philosophers called this type of success ataraxia. Once you've attained ataraxia - tranquility of the soul - you'll be able to maintain your equanimity despite the slings and arrows of fate. To put it another way, to be successful is to be imperturbable, regardless of whether you're flying high or crash landing.

How can we achieve inner success? By focusing exclusively on the things we can influence and resolutely blocking out everything else. Input, not output. Our input we can control; our output we can't, because chance keeps sticking its oar in. Money, power and popularity are things over which we have only limited control. Losing them will send you into a tailspin if they're the focus of your attention. If, however, you've trained yourself to be serene, imperturbable and ataraxic, you'll mostly be happy - no matter what fate throws your way. Simply put, inner success is more stable than the external kind.

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Let's be honest: nobody's going to strive 100 percent for inner success and pay no heed whatsoever to the external kind. Yet we can edge closer to the ideal of ataraxia through daily practice. Every evening, take stock: When did you fail today? When did you let the day be poisoned by toxic emotions? What things beyond your control did you let upset you? And which mental tools are required for self-improvement? You don't have to be the richest person in the cemetery - instead, be the most inwardly successful person in the here and now. “Make each day your masterpiece" was what Wooden hammered into his players' heads. Take his advice. Inner success is never fully attainable, and you'll have to practice it your whole life long. Nobody is going to do that work for you.

- Rolf Dobelli, 'The Art of the Good Life'